Okay, so this post will wreak havoc with chronology. But you remember Last Year in Marienbad, right? To quote Woody Allen, "Yeah, I get it. It's all flashbacks." Alex and I went to Mexico in mid-January of this year. The reason was pretty simple: I had to use an airline ticket by the end of the month and it wasn't too expensive to get another ticket for Alex. We kept pretty busy for a week. We arrived on Sunday, January 20 and the next day we headed to Teotihuacán, where we got our fair share of exercise climbing up and down the pyramids, a sunburn, and some nice pictures.
The rest of the week was spent museum-hopping in Mexico City, with a brief detour to Tlaxcala, a small city an hour and a half away from DF, where a few years back I had given week-long courses on several occasions at the local university.
It had been several years since I had been in Mexico and I had forgotten how completely US
chain stores and restaurants have penetrated Mexican culture. I'm not too ashamed to admit that we took advantage of them a few times. But a real highlight had to be the massive Iron Maiden advertisement. It took me a while to realize they're for shoes (how much, you may ask? 510 pesos, or about $50. A bit too rich for my blood). Pre-modern, modern, post-modern, capitalist, post-capitalist. Whatever. We had fun.
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